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Amoeblog posts marked with south la's eastside.California Fool's Gold -- Exploring South Central<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>IS BUSTIN' A CAP REALLY FUNDAMENTAL?</strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp;--&nbsp;</span></strong><strong style="font-size: medium;">SOUTH CENTRAL</strong></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/PendersleighSons'MapofSouthCentral.jpg" alt="Pendersleigh &amp; Sons Cartography's map of South Central" width="560" height="433" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Pendersleigh.and.sons.cartography">Pendersleigh &amp; Sons Cartography</a>'s Map of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HistoricSouthCentral">South Central</a></strong></span></div>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/south-central/page1.html">South Central</a></strong> means different things to different people. To some it refers to a vast, amorphous collection of neighborhoods and cities between the <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/santa-monica-bay/page1.html">Santa Monica Bay</a></strong> and the&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/san-gabriel-river/">San Gabriel River</a></strong>, north of the <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/the-harbor/page1.html">San Pedro Bay</a></strong> and south of the <strong>10 Freeway</strong>. To others its less of a geographical space than a metaphor -- that's surely the sense in which <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/63533">Ice Cube</a> </strong>used it to refer to <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/compton/page1.html">Compton</a></strong> -- which is of course it's own city and thus not any part of &quot;LA.&quot;<br />
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A widely-accepted story tells that the South Central brand became so loaded with negative connotations of gang violence and riots that a neologism, <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/south-los-angeles/page1.html">South Los Angeles</a></strong>, was devised to &quot;officially&quot; replace it. But South Los Angeles is a geographic concept that goes back at least to the <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/1930s/page1.html">1930s</a></strong>, as does South Central -- when it was coined to refer to the then-mostly-<strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/black-history-month/page1.html">black</a></strong> neighborhood that arose just south of <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/downtown-los-angeles/page1.html">Downtown</a></strong> along <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/south-central-avenue/page1.html">South Central Avenue</a></strong> (hence the name) that is now sometimes referred to as &ldquo;<strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/historic-south-central/page1.html">Historic South Central</a></strong>.&rdquo;<br />
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Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:10:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2014/02/eric-s-blog/california-fool-s-gold-exploring-south-central.htmlThe 17th Central Avenue Jazz Festival <span style="font-size: medium; "><strong>THE CENTRAL AVENUE JAZZ FESTIVAL<br />
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<img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/CentralAvenueJazzPark.JPG" alt="Central Avenue Jazz Park" width="278" height="208" />&nbsp;<img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/SouthCentralwithJazzbanner.JPG" height="208" alt="" /><br />
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Every year for the past 17 years, during the last weekend in <strong>July</strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/los-angeles/page1.html">LA</a> </strong>residents and visitors are treated to the preeminent<strong> <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/jazz/page1.html">jazz</a></strong> event on the <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/west-coast/page1.html">West Coast</a></strong> with <strong><a href="http://www.centralavejazz.org/">The Central Avenue Jazz Festival</a></strong>. It&rsquo;s <strong>free </strong>and open to the public &ndash; last year, 35,000 attended. The focus, of course, is live music but there are also craft and food booths. I've been meaning to check it out in the past and this I year finally did.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/DunbarHotel.JPG" alt="The Dunbar Hotel" width="520" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small; "><strong>The Dunbar in 2012 and </strong><em><strong>Central Ave - A Community Album</strong></em></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: medium; ">A BRIEF BIT OF BACKGROUND ABOUT SOUTH CENTRAL<br />
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<img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/MalcolmXWay.JPG" alt="Malcolm X Way - South Central, Los Angeles" width="279" height="208" />&nbsp;<img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/JazzMural.JPG" alt="Jazz Mural - South Central Los Angeles" width="279" height="208" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small; "><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Intersection of Malcolm X Way and MLK &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;A&nbsp;Jazzy mural at Alondra's Bakery</strong></span><br />
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Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:05:26 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2012/07/eric-s-blog/the-17th-central-avenue-jazz-festival-.htmlA brief (and by no means complete) history of Black Los Angeles. Happy Black History Month!<strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/Los-Angeles/page1.html">Los Angeles</a></strong>' black population is relatively small compared to the city's other major racial and ethnic minorities. The LA metro area is only 8.7% <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/black-history-month/page1.html">black</a></strong> as compared to&nbsp;47% <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/latinos/page1.html">Latino</a></strong> (of any race),&nbsp;28.7% non-Latino <strong>white</strong>, and&nbsp;14%<strong> <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/asian-americans/page1.html">Asian/Pacific Islander</a></strong>. However, since its inception, black Angelenos have always played a major role in LA's history and culture. Los Angeles is one of the only major <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/usa/page1.html">US</a> </strong>cities founded largely by people of black <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/africa/page1.html">African</a></strong> ancestry. When it was still a <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/spain/page1.html">Spanish</a> </strong>colony, Los Angeles began life as <strong>El Pueblo de Nuestra Se&ntilde;ora la Reina de los &Aacute;ngeles</strong> on 4 September, 1781 (well, <em><strong><a href="http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/history/la-as-subject/birth-of-the-pueblo-of-los-angeles-los-pobladores-and-la-as-a-spanish-colonial-outpost.html">sort of</a></strong></em>). Of the 44 <em>pobladores</em> who ventured over from nearby <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2011/11/eric-s-blog/san-gabriel-a-city-with-a-mission-.html">San Gabriel</a></strong>, a majority of 26 were identified as having African ancestry.<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; "><strong>BLACKS IN MEXICAN AND EARLY AMERICAN LOS ANGELES<br />
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During the period that Los Angeles was part of <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/mexico/page1.html">Mexico</a></strong> (1821-1840), blacks were fairly integrated into society at all levels. Mexico abolished slavery much earlier than the US, in 1820. In 1831, <strong>Emanuel Victoria</strong> served as <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/california/page1.html">California</a></strong>'s first black governor. <strong>Alta California</strong>'s last governor, <strong>P&iacute;o de Jesus Pico</strong>, was also of mixed black ancestry. The US won the <strong>Mexican-American War</strong> and in 1850, California was admitted to the United States. Although one of America's so-called &quot;free states,&quot; discriminatory legislation was quickly enacted to restrict and remove the civil rights of blacks, <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/chinese-americans/page1.html">Chinese</a></strong>, and <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/native-americans/page1.html">Native Americans</a></strong>. For example, blacks (and other minorities) couldn't testify in court against white people.&nbsp;<br />
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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:19:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2012/01/eric-s-blog/a-brief-and-by-no-means-complete-history-of-black-los-angeles-happy-black-history-month-.htmlCalifornia Fool's Gold -- A South Los Angeles Eastside Primer<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; "><strong>STRAIGHT BILLIN' THROUGH THE EASTSIDE<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">In Los Angeles, usage of the term &quot;Eastside&quot; varies depending on the speaker. To most <strong>Angelenos</strong> -- especially <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/latinos/page1.html">Latinos</a></strong> -- <strong>&quot;<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2011/03/eric-s-blog/across-the-river-an-eastside-primer.html">The Eastside</a>&quot;</strong> refers to a group of neighborhoods immediately east of the LA river: <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2010/01/eric-s-blog/boyle-heights.html">Boyle Heights</a>, Brooklyn Heights, City Terrace, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/EastLos.EastLA">East Los Angeles</a>, El Sereno, Happy Valley, Hillside Village,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2012/03/eric-s-blog/the-pueblo-s-bedroom-lincoln-heights.html">Lincoln Heights</a>, </strong>Rose Hills<strong>,</strong> and <strong>University Hills</strong>.&nbsp;</div>
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<div style="text-align: center; "><strong><a href="http://brightwell-shop.com/cartography">Pendersleigh &amp; Sons</a>' Official Map of South LA's Eastside<br />
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The other <strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/South-LAs-Eastside/158169310926520?sk=wall">Eastside</a></strong> is in <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/south-los-angeles/page1.html">South LA</a></strong>. This Eastside was historically the main area that LA's <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/black-history-month/page1.html">black</a></strong> residents were required to live until the middle of the <strong>20th century</strong>. It should be noted that when people speak of this region -- though they're implicitly referring to the East Side of South Los Angeles -- that reference to this area as &quot;the Eastside&quot; likely pre-dates the modern version of communties east of the river.&nbsp;Check out <strong><a href="http://www.eighthandwall.org/theeastsiders/video.html">The Eastsiders</a></strong>, a documentary about South LA's Eastside between 1920 and 1965.<br />
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Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:15:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2011/08/eric-s-blog/california-fool-s-gold-a-south-los-angeles-eastside-primer.htmlCalifornia Fool's Gold -- Exploring Compton, Los Angeles County's Hub City<div style="text-align: center;">***The following blog entry contains strong language and is intended for mature audiences***</div>
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This edition of <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/contributors/eric-s-blog/profile.html">Eric's Blog</a></strong> is all about the <strong>CPT</strong>. &nbsp;Where? <strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Compton/135562993171537">Compton</a></strong>. That's right. To vote for other<strong> <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/los-angeles-county-communities/page1.html">Los Angeles County communities</a></strong> to be covered on the blog, vote <strong><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bO652yvN3UVQLjDz0Zmvtg_3d_3d">here</a>.</strong> To vote for <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/orange-county-communities/page1.html">Orange County communities</a></strong>, vote <strong><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/26XZWSS">here</a></strong>. To vote for <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/los-angeles-neighborhoods/page1.html">Los Angeles neighborhoods</a></strong>, vote <strong><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=nww_2fnYygAFbzGG_2fn7FfXEw_3d_3d">here</a></strong>.<br />
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<p>Compton is an infamous city that is practically synonymous around the world with the<a href="http://www.facebook.com/southla"> <strong>South Los Angeles</strong></a> region in which it's located. Due in large part to the mythologizing and glamorization of <strong>N.W.A.</strong> and their <strong>gangsta rap</strong> followers, Compton has also become a byword for urban squalor and gang violence even though (not to make anyone feel old) nearly a quarter of a century has passed since the release of <strong>&quot;Straight Outta Compton&quot;</strong>&nbsp;and the city has, naturally, changed a great deal in that time. Nevertheless, the media continues to exploit the aging and increasingly irrelevant image as if Compton is frozen in time. Recently, a program on <strong>The History Channel</strong> hilariously claimed that &quot;going to Compton is a death sentence for non-blacks.&quot; Not only are most residents of Compton non-black Latinos, there are small but visible groups of <strong>Belizeans, <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/filipino-americans/page1.html">Filipinos</a>, <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/korean-americans/page1.html">Koreans</a>, Samoans</strong> and <strong>Tongans</strong>.</p><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2011/02/eric-s-blog/california-fool-s-gold-exploring-compton-los-angeles-county-s-hub-city.html">Continue reading...</a></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2011/02/eric-s-blog/california-fool-s-gold-exploring-compton-los-angeles-county-s-hub-city.html
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:03:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2011/02/eric-s-blog/california-fool-s-gold-exploring-compton-los-angeles-county-s-hub-city.html